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Friday, April 27, 2018

The end of a failed SNP political career: SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon stands alone in battle over Brexit powers, Lord Hope of Craighead describes why Nicola Sturgeon will lose at the UK Supreme Court, ‘low road’ politics is all the SNP can muster now grievance, grievance, grievance; it is not in Scotland’s national interest for Nicola Sturgeon to continue as First Minister

Dear All

Having been told that the offer by Prime Minister Theresa
May is final on Brexit, Nicola Sturgeon has decided to stand alone against the UK government
in an unwinnable fight. Fighting for the sake of fighting is stupid. Nicola Sturgeon’s act is more in line with someone who is an
‘attention seeker’ rather than a serious politician.

Sturgeon wanted a constitutional
crisis in order to try and restarted another doomed to fail Scottish independence bid
and it now looks inevitable that a date with the UK Supreme Court is on the
cards.

In attempting to appear meaningful, the SNP leader has dismissed
London's offer on the EU Withdrawal Bill as not
being in the Scottish national interest, this is a joke because the SNP aren’t
interested in the best interests of Scotland.

If Theresa May’s offer
was so bad, the Labour government in Wales won’t have done a compromise
on the Bill earlier this week. In a crude attempt to rally Labour in Scotland,
Sturgeon said that no self-respecting MSP could support the
Conservative offer. This is Sturgeon playing at politics, she knows she will
lose, and wants to have parliament back into two camps, pro UK Vs nationalists.

People like Nicola Sturgeon don’t care about anything except
getting her way; she regarded the final Brexit amendments as unacceptable. She
saying this would allow the UK
government to override the will of Holyrood and impose legislation.
If you think back to the Council tax freeze, the SNP didn’t have a problem
using threatens to override the will of Councils to impose the freeze or face
consequences.

Whitehall have made it clear Theresa May does not intend to
offer Scotland anything beyond its deal with Cardiff, and if MSPs
withhold consent for the EU Bill, it will mean the UK government will continue
its challenge to Holyrood’s alternative Brexit Bill at the Supreme Court. There
is a case to be made for more powers for Holyrood but now there is a case to be
made for removal of powers. In recent weeks, there is a feeling among some that
this needs to go further and closed down Holyrood, the parliament has been an
expensive failure due to the calibre of MSPs selected and elected.

In politics, the direction of travel must be forward, and it
is time that the UK
government pressed ahead, although intergovernmental talks have been pencilled,
this won’t solve the problem. Westminster must
act to protect the UK
economic interest and secure our ‘single market’ this means it must impose Brexit
legislation. Given that the people of Scotland rejected the SNP version
of independence, there will be no real support for the SNP controlled Holyrood.

I have to say I look forward to Nicola Sturgeon losing at
the UK Supreme Court, and despite Sturgeon’s emphatic rejection of the UK government’s
offer, nothing will be stopping Brexit. This is the problem with Sturgeon; she
is the past, a ghost of the past who thinks she is politically relevant in
2018.

Nicola Sturgeon along with Alex Salmond became politically irrelevant
at 10 pm on the 14th September 2014, and although anger carried the
tide for them to get 56 MPs, in less than two short years, the head had been
cut off the SNP Westminster snake and the 56 became 35.

The 35 SNP MPs in some constituencies hang by a thread.

It seems to me that UK wanting to retain control over
24 devolved areas, most related to agriculture, fisheries and the environment,
for up to seven years after Brexit isn’t a big deal. It isn’t a big deal
because it is in Scotland’s
national interest to create UK-wide frameworks to protect the internal market.

A strong UK
means a stronger Scotland.

So, why doesn’t the SNP grasp this?

The answer is simple….. time!

Time catches up with everyone and everything, in history
there are certain times of opportunity to effect change, the SNP think they can
wipe the slate clean, generate the same level of interest in another
independence bid. What Brexit has done has been to change the political
landscape of the UK.
This event left the SNP exposed as their own independence narrative is now
worthless, and once we are out, the appetite for returning to the EU won’t be
there, a million Scots said no to EU membership. The EU is falling apart with
member states becoming increasingly unhappy about the way it is run and who it
is run by.

At First Minister’s Questions, Scottish Tory leader Ruth
Davidson accused Ms Sturgeon of “dancing on the head of a pin” to find
excuses not to reach agreement.

She said:

“There is a deal to be done here. The Welsh have backed it,
other parties in this chamber back it, and business wants her to back it, so
will the First Minister for once do a deal in the national interest and not in
her nationalist interest?”

Everybody knows what is going on, the SNP is a party which
has seen its voter share fall, in fact I came across a video where someone who
voted SNP described Nicola Sturgeon as ‘BITCH’ and a ‘COW’ for imposing minimum
pricing on alcohol. I wonder how many votes the SNP will be losing over minimum
pricing on alcohol?

Will there be convoys to England for cheap booze?

LibDem MSP Tavish Scott said:

“We have been constantly assured that SNP Ministers would
work to achieve an agreement across the governments of the UK. They now
look set to depart from that position. Uncertainty for businesses and citizens
continues. That is not in Scotland’s
interests.”

Lord Hope of Craighead, formerly Scotland’s
most senior judge, said the UK
and Scottish governments appeared “very close to agreement” but the reality is,
you can’t trust the SNP anymore than you can trust a rabid dog not to bite when
angry. There is only ‘low road’ politics where the SNP are concerned,
grievance, grievance, grievance; it is a record that has grown old.

Lord Hope of Craighead added:

“One of the boundaries [of devolution] is that the Scottish
Parliament cannot legislate in areas that are outside its own territory. The UK
government is saying ‘we can’t give you a veto over this’, which is effectively
what the Scottish government is asking for and it is difficult to get round
that final position.”

Finally, although the SNP is made up of many MSPs who are lawyers,
there is a distain for the law, the SNP don’t do law well. Nicola Sturgeon
herself is a lawyer with a less than glowing legal career behind her. It is
time that Nicola Sturgeon learned that she won’t be damaging Scotland and the rest of the UK national
interest and if that means a Court case so be it. Sturgeon’s position as SNP
leader is becoming more untenable day by day, people even in the nationalist
community will be asking how long must this sham of a leader continue before
they say 'enough is enough'?